U. S. Hardware Encryption Market by Algorithm & Standard (Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman (RSA), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and Others), Architecture (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)), Product (Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drives (SSD), Universal Serial Bus (USB), and Inline Network Encryptor), Application (Consumer electronics, IT & Telecom , Automotive & Transportation, Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare, and Others), and End Use (Industrial, Commercial, Residential, and Government): Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2019-2026.

New York, March 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "U.S. Hardware Encryption Market by Algorithm & Standard, Architecture, Product, Application, and End Use : Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2019-2026" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05868990/?utm_source=GNW

Hardware encryption is a hardware-based technique which is used for securing digital data. There are two forms of encryption; hardware-based encryption and software-based encryption. Hardware encryption uses a processor that contains random number of generators to generate encryption key. The key advantage of hardware-based solutions is that they eliminate the typical drawbacks of software-based solutions such as performance degradation for attacks aimed at the encryption key stored in memory. In hardware encryption, the security parameters and safeguard keys enhance the performance of encryption. These security parameters protect the encryption from cold boots and brute force attacks. Hardware encryption is a cost-effective method that holds diverse applications in securing data efficiently. Increase in regulatory compliances regarding protection of private & sensitive data and reduction in prices of hardware encryption devices majorly drive the growth of the market. Moreover, factors such as increase in concerns related to data security and privacy, growth of the consumer electronics such as smartphones and tablets and increase in complexity & volume of data breaches and brute force attacks drive the growth of the market. However, high capital investment and limited use of encrypted devices in the U.S. hinder the market growth. On the contrary, widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and cloud services as well as technological advancement on encryption chip are anticipated to offer lucrative opportunities for the market. The U.S. hardware encryption market is segmented into algorithm & standard, architecture, product, application, and end use. Depending on algorithm and standard, the market is bifurcated into Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman (RSA), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and others. On the basis of architecture, it is classified into Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The product segment includes Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drives (SSD), Universal Serial Bus (USB), and incline network encryptor. By application, the market is categorized into consumer electronics, IT & telecom, automotive & transportation, aerospace and defense, healthcare and others. The end use segment is segregated into industrial, commercial, residential, and government. The report analyzes the profiles of key players operating in the market, which include International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation, Kingston Technology Company, Inc., McAfee, LLC, Micron Technology, Inc., NetApp, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seagate Technology LLC, Symantec Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, and Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

KEY BENEFITS FOR STAKEHOLDERS The study provides an in-depth analysis of the U.S. hardware encryption market trends to elucidate the imminent investment pockets. Information about key drivers, restraints, and opportunities and their impact analyses on the U.S. hardware encryption market size is provided. Porters five forces analysis illustrates the potency of the buyers and suppliers operating in the U.S. hardware encryption industry. The quantitative analysis of the market from 2014 to 2026 is provided to determine the U.S. hardware encryption market potential.

KEY MARKET SEGMENTS

By Algorithm & Standard Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman (RSA) Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Others

By Architecture Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

By Product Hard Disk Drive (HDD) o External HDD o Internal HDD Solid State Drives (SSD) Universal Serial Bus (USB) o Up to 4GB o 5GB to 16GB o 17GB to 64GB o 65GB and above Inline Network Encryptor

By Application Consumer electronics IT & Telecom Automotive & Transportation Aerospace and Defense Healthcare Others

By End Use Industrial Commercial Residential Government

BY REGION North America o U.S. o Canada Europe o Germany o France o UK o Rest of Europe

Asia-Pacific o Japan o China o India o Rest of Asia-Pacific

LAMEA o Latin America o Middle East o Africa

KEY MARKET PLAYERS International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation Kingston Technology Company, Inc. McAfee, LLC Micron Technology, Inc. NetApp, Inc. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Seagate Technology LLC Symantec Corporation Toshiba Corporation Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

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Datrium has been awarded patents for data resiliency and encryption, recognising the companys ability to create innovative solutions for customers.

The company, providing a secure multi cloud data platform for the resilient enterprise, received the US patents for data resiliency and durability; enhanced storage performance; advancements in server-powered deduplication, encryption and compression; and data path monitoring for improved network resilience.

The patents were invented by Datriums leaders and engineering team. Many of the same team created the backup deduplication technology at Data Domain.

Datrium now holds 13 US patents and one international. US patents #10,514,982, #10,359,945, #10,180,948, #10,540,504 and #10,554,520 are aimed at enabling IT leaders to improve the resilience of their data and reduce the risk of disasters, Datrium states.

The patents address core methods for providing Live Mount on a cloud blob store, preserving deduplication economics while raising the bar on Blanket Encryption and providing stronger network resilience in clouds that offer limited networking control, according to the company.

Datrium has shared more specifically what the patents are and why they are significant for customers.

Blanket Encryption Datrium US patent #10,540,504 is a method for preserving deduplication while providing Blanket Encryption in use, in flight and at restin distributed storage systems. This advancement enables the economics of cloud backup storage, while using encryption to combat threats.

Split Provisioning suitable for public cloud deployment Datrium US patent #10,180,948 complements US patent #10,140,136 and #10,359,945. It extends Datriums Split Provisioning to include host caching and non-volatile storage as a separated part of a scaleout storage pool.

This Split Provisioning architecture enables Datrium to store data economically in blob storage such as AWS S3 and restart workloads with high performance in on-demand provisioned compute resources to respond to a disaster.

Managing non-volatile storage as a shared resource in a distributed system US patent #10,359,945 is a lightweight method for efficiently managing a shared pool of high-speed, non-volatile (NV) storage in a distributed system, Datrium states.

It also enables low-latency writes in the cloud even when the bulk of the data is stored in high-latency, but cost-effective blob storage.

Resilient writes in a degraded distributed erasure-coded storage system with key-based addressing US patent #10,514,982 is a core element of Datrium Automatrix technology.

It shows how to store data with full redundancy and durability even in the face of transient node or drive failures in distributed erasure-coded systems, Datrium states.

According to the company, most modern systems have mechanisms to eventually recover from a node or drive failure, but there is typically a window after a drive fails and before recovery when new data is stored in degraded mode with reduced durability.

With this technology, individual nodes can fail and Datrium will maintain the same level of durability, eliminating this window of data vulnerability.

When any of the storage devices in the system become inaccessible, the chunks nominally designated to be written to the device are instead written to alternate devices, according to the company.

Data path monitoring in a distributed storage network Datrium US patent #10,554,520 provides an improved method for distributed storage system network resilience that works in the cloud and does not rely on the Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

With Datriums advancements, host software and persistent storage pool software communicate with each other to assess link status and direct data flow

Datrium chief scientist and cofounder Hugo Patterson says, We are transforming the way enterprises approach disaster recovery with new resilience and data durability enhancements.

Our team is thrilled to be awarded these patents that are the basis of the next generation of data encryption, deduplication and resilience technology. These patents are key enablers for a secure hybrid and multi cloud ecosystem, including DR as a Service in the public cloud.

Datrium CEO Tim Page says, Our latest patents validate Datriums position as leader in data resiliency and data protection, in public clouds and on prem. Datriums world-class engineers continue to push the boundaries of innovation so that we can give our customers the strongest and easiest-to-use infrastructure to meet the growing threats of twenty-first century cybercrimes and natural disasters.

Our team is delivering technical innovations that enable IT leaders to improve the resilience of their data and simultaneously reduce their risk of disaster.

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FOX Business Briefs: Facebook's messaging system WhatsApp reveals vulnerability to hackers after an Israeli firm was allegedly able to install spyware onto phones by simply placing a call; Supreme Court ruling opens the door for consumers to sue Apple for forcing them to buy apps exclusive to the tech giant.

Encrypted messagingapps anddigital privacy in generalare in high demand in this era of big tech and heightened cybercrime capabilities.

Manydevelopers have created similar but individually uniqueprivate messaging apps to fulfill this consumer demand for a way to communicate privately without fear that neither developers nor other third parties like hackers or law enforcement can access messages through a back door.

In other words, only users messaging each other can read those messages. This is called end-to-end encryption. iMessage comes equipped with end-to-end encryption on iPhones, but Google Messages has yet to offer the same end-to-end capability.

Here are the top-rated, free messaging apps created by independent developers other than Google and Apple with end-to-end encryption on Androids and iPhones:

Facebook-ownedWhatsAppis by far the most popular and top-ratedmessaging app with end-to-end encryption in the world. On the App Store, WhatsApp has 6.8 million reviews and a nearly five-star rating average; on Google Play, it has more than 106 million reviews and an average rating of more than four stars.

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More than 25 percent of the world's entire populationusedWhatsAppas of Feb. 12because some countries like India and Brazil -- WhatsApp's most frequent users -- do not have the same network capabilities as the U.S.

The app has come under increasing scrutiny, however, because a number of cybercriminals have taken advantage of the app's convenience and encryption technology, highlighting the dangers of the app's unique vulnerabilities and capabilities on a global scale.

In January, two U.N. expertscalled foraninvestigationby the U.S. into information they received suggestingAmazonfounderJeff Bezosopened a malware-containing video message onWhatsApp that appeared to come from Saudi Crown PrinceMohammad Bin Salman's personal account in 2018. The alleged cyberattackmade national news.

Facebook Messenger does not come up when users search for "encrypted messaging" despite the fact that it is the most popular messaging app withend-to-end encryption. Messenger has 1.1 million reviews on the App Store and an average rating of more than four stars; on Google Play, it has more than 71 million reviews and the same rating.

Messenger has receivedcriticism similar to WhatsApp for helping to fuel criminal activity.

The New York Times published a comprehensive report on the child sex abuse and human trafficking that takes place on encrypted messaging apps such as Messenger. The report notes that Messenger only became encrypted after Facebook came under pressure for not taking privacy seriously.

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"Facebook announced in Marchplans to encrypt Messenger, which last year was responsible for nearly 12 million of the 18.4 million worldwide reports of child sexual abuse material, according to people familiar with the reports," the report reads.

Snapchat is a popular app among young smartphone users that allows users to send photos, videos and messages that disappear in seconds, though users can make them last for up to 24 hours if they choose to do so. The app introduced end-to-end encryption in 2018.

Snapchat has 261,000 reviews on the App Store and an average rating of more than four stars; the app has 21 million total reviews on Google Play and the same rating.

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Users can also video chat with up to 16 contacts.

The app's average user base is very young; 52 percent are under the age of 25, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Telegram is another great app option for a messaging app with end-to-end encryption, especially since it is not tied to a big tech company, so it offers a unique independent app experience. Telegram has 82,000 reviews on the App Store and an average rating of more than four stars; on Google Play, it has 4.6 million total reviews and a four-and-a-half star average rating.

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Pavel Durov, the app's CEO,said in a March 2019blog post that his app gained 3 million followers after WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger experienced temporary outages, according to digital tech magazine The Verge.

Telegram is the only encrypted messaging app that has an age limit; users must be 17 or older to downloadTelegram.

It also has unlimited space to send files and photos without having to delete them to increase storage; it has the ability to create a group chat with 200,000 members, and ittouts itself as the fastest messaging app.

While Signal's userbase is nowhere near that of Messenger or WhatsApp, it also offers a similar alternative to the two apps owned by Facebook with its end-to-end encrypted messaging capabilities. Signal has more than 400,000 reviews on Google Play and an above-four-star rating; on the App Store, it has a five-star rating and nearly 300,000 reviews.

Signal markets itself as a messaging app dedicated to privacy. The app allows users to securely use their real phone numbers and contacts list to communicate with others. It also offers a feature that lets users edit images within the app before sending them to contacts.

Signal, unlike Telegram, does not have an age limit.

A federal grand jury subpoenaed the app in 2016, demanding it hand over information from a conversation that took place on the app. Signal, however, could only produce the dates that the users of the conversation in question created and deleted their accounts.

"The Signal service was designed to minimize the data we retain,"Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Signal owner Open Whisper Systems, said at the time, according to a New York Times report.

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The 2020 presidential election is going to kick off a firestorm of change for our country and the networks that connect us all.The internet and information economy is at an inflection point: the disruptors are no longer upstarts, but have become the new giants, in every sense of the word. Those giants often operate in fields where there is little regulation to protect consumers, like data and advertising, or bump up against the authority of the government in uncomfortable ways, like law enforcement and encryption.At The Verge, weve always paid attention to how simple things like the price of broadband are deeply connected to complicated tech policy debates. And weve been closely watching the collision between social networks and democracy Casey Newton has been writing a daily newsletter called The Interface tracking that subject since 2017. So for the 2020 election cycle, we want to give you a central place to learn about the main tech policy issues were following, see the latest news, and feel like you have a guide through it all. Well be focused on a few main areas: speech and moderation on internet platforms; data and privacy; broadband access; antitrust and corporate behavior; and climate change.

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With hackers becoming increasingly savvy, many Australians have turned to encrypted messaging apps to cloak messages between friends, colleagues and whoever else they're speaking to. But beyond knowing it's one of the safest ways to communicate digitally, end-to-end encryption remains a bit of a mystery. Here's how it works and why Australia's spy agencies are trying to find a way in.

The short message service, or SMS, has been popular since the start of the 2000s and has prevailed for the two decades that followed. While it's a reliable service and many of us still use it daily, it's not an encrypted service. This obviously wasn't as big a deal in its early stages, as the technology was still being understood and people were less concerned with unknown actors peeking in on their communications. 20 years on, encryption is a primary concern for many.

As more people have come to understand that messaging services such as Facebook's Messenger, Twitter and Instagram are not encrypted, it has led to the rise of more secure services such as WhatsApp and Signal.

Gizmodo Australia spoke to Dr Allan Orr, an international security expert, to understand what makes a message encrypted and how these platforms work.

"It's a form of code that ensures that even if a message is intercepted in transit by unintended recipients, it can't be read," Dr Orr said to Gizmodo Australia over email.

In layman's terms, when someone creates an account on a messaging service a unique private and public key are created. A private key stays wholly within the device while a public key helps to send the encrypted messages to other people.

Say someone wants to send an encrypted message to someone else, the contents are then cloaked with the recipient's unique public key. The recipient opens the message using their private key meaning only they can see the message's contents. The only other place the message passes through is the service provider's server but unlike an SMS, for example, it never sees the message because its locked by the recipient's private key it's more or less just a series of unintelligible characters.

A popular explanation is that Bob sends an encrypted message to his friend, Alice. Bob's message is encrypted with Alice's public key and only Alice's private key can decrypt it. So when it passes through the server, the server sees none of the actual contents of the message because it doesn't have Alice's private key.

"The 'key' on the final destination end is random, private and one off and the only way to access it is to have physical access to the device or computer its on or the password to the account," Orr said.

"However, apparently there are still vulnerabilities even in WhatsApp, they hit the news fairly regularly, and regularity of any kind of security vulnerabilities, or one offs for that matter, are extremely worrying if not self-defeating."

Powerful spyware developed by Israeli cyber-intelligence company NSO Group exploited a vulnerability in encrypted messaging app WhatsApp to transfer itself to targeted devices, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

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Not all encryption messaging services are created equal, however. WhatApp, Wickr, Signal and Telegram all offer encrypted messaging services but how they encrypt messages varies.

"Some have more sophisticated algorithms than others," Orr said.

"I understand WhatsApp and Signal protocols are now the same. Wikr differs in that its messages are automatically deleted after a certain amount of time and therefore are ephemeral."

Other services, like Signal, also offer a self-destruct mechanism, which deletes messages sent on both users' ends.

ASIO's head has admitted the agency's pretty pleased about legislation enacted in 2018 compelling encrypted communication providers, like WhatsApp, to hand over messages if users are under investigation for serious crimes. In a speech detailing the agency's threat assessments, he told the audience he was "happy to report that the internet did not break as a result!"

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It's the question everyone's wanting to know but it's one, according to Orr, that's mostly guess work at the moment.

Under the controversial Assistance and Access Act 2018, there are three ways agencies can request assistance from messaging service providers. These are known as The Technical Assistance Request (TAR), Technical Assistance Notice (TAN) and Technical Capability Notice (TCN).

The Australian Home Affairs website offers a vague and complex summary of each one but Orr attempted to give an idea of what they enable law enforcement agencies to do. The TAR, as Orr understands it, is to let them know who downloaded it and uses it. Orr's understanding of the remaining two aspects the TAN and the TCN is limited and this is by design.

"I think [the TAN] is to advise who on the other end is being communicated with or to provide access to unencrypted messages," Orr said. "[The] TCN is vague because they're trying not to expressly tell the... criminals what they are doing here."

Because of the way end-to-end encryption works, a law enforcement or spy agency can't simply read an encrypted message. Orr suspects agencies will gain access to encrypted messages by one of two ways if they haven't already forcing providers to decode messages or receiving a key so they can unlock the contents of a message themselves.

In these cases, WhatsApp says it will notify users unless it's illegal or exceptional.

"WhatsApp reserves the right to notify people who use our service of requests for their information prior to disclosure unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or in exceptional circumstances, such as child exploitation cases, emergencies or when notice would be counterproductive," the service says on its FAQ page.

The legislation is limited, Orr admits, and it's due to the furore it created at the time.

"It won't allow the government to access the messages of users who reside in any other country other than Australia so the government's not going to be able to read the messages of foreign citizens," Orr said.

"It won't be able to decode the messages sent from those people overseas, it will in fact only be able to read the messages that Australians create. So it's extremely limited use for the Five Eyes alliance."

A recent bill introduced to parliament on March 5, however, would change this.

The bill paves the way for Australian agencies to easier share communications data from its citizens as well as request information from foreign citizens too. It, too, would fall under the Home Affairs portfolio headed by Minister Peter Dutton.

It forms another aspect helping to round out the powers provided by the Access and Assistance Act 2018 as well as the proposed changes to the Australian Signals Directorate's reach an intelligence agency focusing on foreign communications interceptions that Minister Dutton would like to be given more power domestically.

A new amendment has been introduced in parliament looking to allow for the easier sharing of communications data between Australia's law enforcement and spy agencies and foreign governments. It comes in response to calls that spy agencies are being left behind without timely access to messaging apps with cloud servers in foreign jurisdictions.

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